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Miracle In the Woods. Next day L woman in Seattle sent in a dollar. "Have faith," she wrote. Other dollars followed ($9,474 to date), and Clarence Dirks set to work to build Camano Chapel, as he called it. Nearby farmers, carpenters, plumbers, even visitors from the city lent a hand. A lumber company gave cedar logs, which were hauled out of the forest, free, by a trucker, sized and split by two roofers in return for the butts, which the chapel could not use. Seattle hotel and restaurant men gave enough money for a $2,500 organ. One rainy...
...church, its dilapidated state kept many away. In the winter the water froze in the font and the wine in the chalice. Parents would not let their children go to catechism class because of the cold and damp. Father Simon realized that he would have to build a small chapel that could be heated in winter and have the church restored for summer services. But where would the money come from...
...gliding man), and scared stiff, he climbed the rickety wooden ladder up to the diving board and thought to himself, "What a funny idea you had to come up to this high perch!" Then, with a prayer to St. Teresa, who was to be patroness of the new chapel, he took off in a wild, unsteady swoop, kicking as he fell, to keep from landing on his back. He hit the water with a smash, and bobbed up to the surface with two black eyes...
Since that first plunge in 1947, Father Simon's annual water sports have raised enough money for him to paint the church and begin work on the chapel. "Now that the church is gay," his parishioners say, "we come more readily to pray there." Father Simon still owes some 450,000 francs ($1,300) on the construction work; it will take a good bit of diving to make that up. But he is full of faith and hope...
Native craftsmen also lavished loving skill on the churches' ornate, polychromed interiors, hewing their sculptures from native woods and stone or molding them from a paste made of corn. The ceiling of a chapel in the sanctuary of Ocotlán, one of the most beautiful in Latin America, took 20 years to decorate. Mexico City's magnificent cathedral, long the largest in the Western Hemisphere,* took more than two centuries to finish...